Archive for December, 2006

Time travel

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

According to 7 things to do with your blog when you take a vacation, Wordpress allows scheduling of blog entries. So, a test. But to stay on topic ... what does time management have to do with knowledge management? I can think of several overlaps: Attention. There's ...

Chocolate

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

It amuses me that one of the most-requested pages I've created so far in my team's wiki is the chocolate chart -- it's traditional here to bring in truffles from a certain chocolatier after California visits. I've taken pictures of the tops of the truffles (which have patterns which ...

Context

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Associative memory plays a big role in information retrieval. What context we're in when we start trying to process new information (or search for old) can dramatically affect how it's stored or what comes up first in the search. For instance, today we had a potluck at work. Lots of ...